How does one reach spiritual enlightenment

Question

im somewhat confused what spiritual enlightenment is...

and is enlightenment another way of saying you're carefree?

Answer 1

enlightenment is nirvana(not the band...bliss). theres no way to possibly be able to tell someone how to reach it. study all religions. pick one you think fits you the best. and be as smart in that one as you can

Answer 2

This is a context dependent notion. In Christianity, enlightenment means that you are aware of God, and can (sometimes) experience a state of grace though God. E.g. see the autobiography of Teresa of Avila.

In Buddhism, enlightenment means being at one with everything in the universe, lacking desire, being content with your place among all the things which live.

Note that both of these appear as passive states, but require action to achieve.

  

Answer 3

To me, enlightenment means always being fully aware of the ultimate reality (ie, not distracted by things we perceive to be 'real').

It's the complete opposite of being carefree.  You only care about the things the 'truly matter' and not the things that  many people think matter.

One thing to remember about enlightenment is that it's not like steps where you jump from one level up to the next. It's more like a ramp where the elevation comes gradually (so gradually that you might not even notice the change, which makes it important to stay determined).

Answer 4

IMHO, Spiritual enlightenment is becoming aware of the reality of God.

Until a person is enlightened he/she cannot grasp this reality (i.e Atheists, they are totally spiritually blind and unenlightened and just cannot accept that God exists.)  But there can be many levels of enlightenment.

In a sense once you discover the Truth and the loving nature of God, you can experience a sense of being carefree but being carefree  in itself is not enlightenment.

As to how you reach it, there are many paths, the ways of the Ascendent Masters, which will only get you so far. but only one way that will get you "all the way" back to the Source.

Joh 14:6  Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me.

How do you get enlightened? You simply ask God to receive it. It is the shortcut the Ascendanrt Masters have missed.

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Answer 5

It can be attained simply by doing some unreasonable thing to reasonably well

1. Think for the poorest of poor people and helf according to your might

2. spend at least one's in a month to some village and see the green .Remember travel by ordinery bus only even you are rich

3. Balance your EGO level by doing the above

4. Never scold a person in despair

5.If you donot like something just move out silently from there .because arguments creats opposition

6. Be allways modest,honest to your work ,sympathetic,selflessness

Answer 6

Ignore the world around you.  Concentrate on your own innerness and contemplate the infinite.

Answer 7

I don't think there's any absolute definition of "enlightenment", it's going to vary from person to person.. but my interpretation of it is, achieving a state of non-commitance to the material world. in other words, you're thinking and living on a higher level, where the physical reality is just one of the many realities you are experiencing. it's a spiritual and religious and emotional awakening. you forgo your dependencies and insecurities and attachments to anything human-made, and embrace the world as it really is.  

Answer 8

It depends on whether you want to strive through a system that controls you, or get it by yourself.

I have antennas that warn me away from controlled spiritual progress, so I looked for a system that gives you all the truth up front and then helps you implement it in your life until you say, "OK, I've got it." Part of that is going to be the understanding that just having it yourself and not helping others is just smartness. It isn't enlightenment.

Answer 9

Realization of our True Self is spiritual enlightenment.We all know that we are not a body but we act and behave as though we are the body and not the soul that is inside the body.When we realize this we reach spiritual enlightenment.